bought a leather luggage from D of dicE at the motorcycle swap meet in baurbank.バーバンクでモーターサイクルのスワップミートあるよーって聞いて行ったら、革のカバンがあった。DicEのDがローズボウルだったら300ドルだけど、今回特別に5ドルポッキリ！などとふざけたこと言って売ってたんだけど、ちょっといいよ、これ。値切らずに5ドルで入手。重いけど今度旅行する時に使うつもり。

shinya got a wheel and some other stuff from J...木村氏は珍しくモーターサイクル関連のものをゲト。

we enjoyed this very mellow saturday swap meet. shinya found this longicorn bug on the sidewalk...

well, he only carried this bag and his Leica dangled from his neck... 実はこの肩掛けカバンとライカを首から下げて・・・

and took his bicycle here from his house in buena park! buena park is like 40 min south west from here by a car, using freeways. he left there at 8:30 in the morning, took about 22-mile bike trail + some open road and got to our workshop a little past 1pm. he said he did it because he wanted to drive the datsun back. OMG

right after he got here, he started to check out the datsun engine. what a tough guy...

4時間半も自転車漕いで来たのに、着いて早々、ダッツンのエンジンをチェック。

and went for a test ride...

shinya and Z came back in a little while and found out that there was a small problem in shift change or something. something that you can fix later. but surprisingly Z decided not to take the datsun this time and said he was gonna ride his bike back and will come back another day...OMG!! he was acting like a big baby but his legs were dead...so we put him and his bike in our van and took him back to his house.

zap gathered all the parts and built this bicycle. most of the parts were given by someone or found on the giveaway section on the craig's list... he made this bike stand out of yoshimura torque rod...この自転車って色々な人からもらったパーツや、クレイグス・リストでほとんどタダで手に入れたパーツを使ってZップが作ったもの。このバイクスタンドはヨシムラのトルク・ロッドで作ったらしい・・・

extended fender was made out of kitchen cutting board...

Zップがまな板を切って作った泥除けは今回の冒険で大活躍したらしいよ・・・

the former owner of this front fender left her name and address in japan on...

anyway, he said he had a so much fun riding this bike all the way from his house to our workshop and found many new things on the way. it wasn't that bad idea after all...

Thursday, July 28, 2011

A-san brought a part of r/c model car and explained to shinya how important this little wing is to make it run straight and fast.モデルカーなどのデザインを手がけるAドウ氏が、ラジコンにつけるウィングがどれだけ重要な役割を果たしているのか教えてくださった。しばし空気力学談義。

A-san also brought this matra-simca, le mans winner, model to show the air intakes on it. pretty cool!エア・インテイクの参考にと、ル・マン24時間レースで優勝したマトラ・シムカのモデルカーも見せてくださった。よく出来てますね、本当に。ありがとうございました！